Intellectual Curiosity Quotes

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity

I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don’t know it all and that they’re dying to learn.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Actually, I’ve never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I’ve always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I’ve been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility.

People die when curiosity goes.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Intellectual curiosity about one’s own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn’t cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world’s most important discoveries.

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

When a new project comes along, I want to know that the experience is going to be challenging and exciting. Part of me is going to be drawn to doing something new and also the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity.

The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you’re not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush’s alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

One can remain alive … if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

I’ve always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

We [in the MBA] get to create a situation where we’re really choosing the students to join our environment based upon what we think they can teach the rest of us. We’re always trying to attract people who are going to bring excitement and intellectual curiosity into our classrooms in our environment.

If it’s a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that’s because it’s true.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.